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A quantum computer could break 2048-bit RSA encryption in 8 hours (technologyreview.com)
1 point by TsukiZombina on July 17, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Reposting the same comment than in the previous submissions:

> Note: For the 8 hours, they need to use a quantum computer with 20-million-qubit, but the current quantum computer have only about 100 qbits.

(And it's very difficult to scale the number of qubits.)




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